Could the unprecedented crisis in housing inflation costs and homelessness that severely impacts quality of life be the reason to legalize building more? No, it must be to "punish" your little suburb by making it more livable with super scary homes that touch each other.

I think there might be something shady about this guy.

There are lots of them! Abuse of "historic landmark" status is the bread and butter of NIMBYs everywhere. Googling "historic landmark parking lot" gives news stories from all over the country, and those are just the ones notable enough to get op eds about.

"Park" is just as easy to say as "4th." "Avenue of the Americas" is a mouthful.

Now this is an important news story.

real "world's shortest giant" energy

Hopefully he never goes to work at his new job either.

Why is this clearly AI generated nonsense answer the top comment?

You guessed it exactly!

>that comment is by an airbnb operative

🙄

Okay? I have a neighbor who leaves the gas on sometimes too.

That story doesn’t seem to have anything to do with airbnb?

Could you phrase that a little bitchier?

Whereas I would prefer to have quiet, privacy and access to a kitchen, laundry, etc and stay in an actual neighborhood instead of a central business district, and I see having servants coming in to clean unnecessarily twice a day as an expensive annoyance. And that’s okay too. Neither of us is right, it’s just preferences.

The people who manage to land a rent controlled home will be able to live cheaply as their home and their city decays around them, together with their grown children who can't afford to leave. Sometimes it's worth it for that select group, but overall it's a disaster. Supply and demand is not some trick made up by evil economists.

First one he listed lays it pretty straightforwardly. Rent control reduces both the quality and quantity of housing available, in more or less the same way price controls for other things typically do. The theory is straightforward, but it's not just theory, it is extremely well documented in practice. It benefits entrenched interests at the expense of all future residents, and destroys the livability of cities.

So when you said "those arguments aren't convincing," what you meant was "I'm not going to read any of that?"

Seemed like a good idea.

Yes, like me. I have opposed most forms of rent control since reading about the subject.

They are convincing to someone who is even slightly open to being persuaded by evidence.

So true, the poor love getting run over by cars

No, you are correct that as the pressure increases, it eventually compresses to liquid and solid. And bathe cores of the planets are made of heavier elements that are solid anyway. But they are mostly gas.

Yes, every rainbow looks the same. Rainbows are an illusion caused by the way light bounces around inside spherical drops of water. The angle light is bent as it passes from air to water and back again depends on wavelength.

The idea that the rainbow has seven colors actually comes from Isaac Newton, who greatly advanced our understanding of light. He understood that it was a continuous spectrum, but made many analogies to musical notes. The wavelengths of the “seven colors” are proportional to the wavelengths of the notes of one octave of a major scale.

Nope, having to meet fire code is part of being legalized. Anyone else?